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I found this post over on MMi, and if their site wasn't festering with inline sponsored Ads I'd just tell ya to head there to find out more.

Anyway, Skrew has released a cool application to convert your NON-DRM Songs to Ringtones

Its pretty easy to use, and it basically uses the first 30 seconds of whatever song you choose. Or, you can select the starting point in your song, and use the following 30 seconds as your ringtone! (new to 2.0)

The install is pretty simple, although you will need make sure you have the following:

Note: There is a one time download of a 2.6 meg binary which is part of the program. The author chose to make this a post install file on its own because the author wanted to save himself bandwidth on updates. By making this binary separate, you only ever need to download it once instead of having it download with each update he makes (there were already 3 updates today for example).

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ok. I installed it and it seems to have worked. It shows up in the ringtones list but it only previews about five seconds of it so I don't know if it completely worked or if its just going to play the first five seconds over and over. Just have to wait for a call and see.

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ok. I installed it and it seems to have worked. It shows up in the ringtones list but it only previews about five seconds of it so I don't know if it completely worked or if its just going to play the first five seconds over and over. Just have to wait for a call and see.

I did a little reading around and apparently, its a common quirk with the program that your first ringtone may playback incorrectly. Interestingly, every ringtone created after that works fine. The author is trying to track down this bug, but the fact that it works fine after the 1st try leads me to believe hes fine with things as they are. Its taken him quite a bit of work and updates in the passed few days to even get the application to this point.

That said, give it another go by first deleting your ringtone from the ringtones menu in this application, followed by creating a new one. It should work just fine at that point, and if you still run in to problems it may be because the song you're trying to convert is protected with DRM, i.e. its a song you bought from iTunes.

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I tried doing more ringtones but its still not working. They all play for about 5 seconds. All the songs were ripped from legally purchased CDs i have the bsd subsystem and the suid fix and tried reinstalling both but still no luck. Someone please help I'm getting sick of marimba

Note: There is a one time download of a 2.6 meg binary which is part of the program. The author chose to make this a post install file on its own because the author wanted to save himself bandwidth on updates. By making this binary separate, you only ever need to download it once instead of having it download with each update he makes (there were already 3 updates today for example).